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4 - The Nervous Child

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2025

Leticia Fernández-Fontecha
Leticia Fernández-Fontecha
Affiliation:
Washington and Lee University, Virginia
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Chapter 4 continues the theme of the preceding chapter in chronological order and seeks to expose the contrast between two coexisting theoretical frameworks: the clinical tradition, which still argued for the somatic basis of mental illnesses, and the emerging field of psychotherapy. The second part of the chapter examines the figuration of the ‘nervous child’, which recognised the importance of the environment in mental health.

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Childhood painmental painnervous childpsychotherapyneurastheniamental illnesschildren’s somatic painfrom bodies to minds
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Childhood, Pain and Emotion
A Modern British Medical History
 , pp. 110 - 151
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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